![]() Where the Ballard factor comes in is the way that these straight, upper-middle-class white men and women go completely mad. ![]() High Rise is the third of Ballard’s so-called ‘urban trilogy’, following on from Crash and Concrete Island in being set resolutely in the present day, with realistic characters in realistic settings. This is a brilliant, visionary, compelling and terrifying vision of urban decay, psychological catastrophe mixed with the voyeuristic thrill of watching the reversion of the poshest and snootiest in society to feral barbarism. ![]() Even more significant, the pay-phones in the elevator lobbies had been ripped out, as if the tenants, like Anne and himself, had agreed to shut off any contact with the world outside. The stairways were littered with broken glass, splintered kitchen chairs and sections of handrail. ![]() Garbage lay heaped around the jammed disposal chutes. The residents’ rebellion against the apartment building was now in full swing. ![]() As he moved from one floor to the next, from one elevator to another, he realized the full extent of its deterioration. For the next hour Royal continued his search for his wife, descending deeper into the central mass of the high-rise. ![]()
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